EP0281606A4 - Stable metal-sheathed thermocouple cable. - Google Patents
Stable metal-sheathed thermocouple cable.Info
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- EP0281606A4 EP0281606A4 EP19870906050 EP87906050A EP0281606A4 EP 0281606 A4 EP0281606 A4 EP 0281606A4 EP 19870906050 EP19870906050 EP 19870906050 EP 87906050 A EP87906050 A EP 87906050A EP 0281606 A4 EP0281606 A4 EP 0281606A4
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H10—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H10N—ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H10N10/00—Thermoelectric devices comprising a junction of dissimilar materials, i.e. devices exhibiting Seebeck or Peltier effects
- H10N10/80—Constructional details
- H10N10/85—Thermoelectric active materials
- H10N10/851—Thermoelectric active materials comprising inorganic compositions
- H10N10/854—Thermoelectric active materials comprising inorganic compositions comprising only metals
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- This invention relates to a mineral-insulated, metal-sheathed (MIMS) thermocouple cable, and to thermocouples made from such cable.
- MIMS cable The manufacture of MIMS cable is well known.
- Th components consist of a metallic sheath and two thermoelements (thermocouple conductors) insulated fro each other, and the sheath, by a compacted ceramic-oxide-insulation material.
- the components are assembled under clean, dry conditions and by a process such as drawing, swaging or rolling, the sheath diameter is reduced to compact the ceramic and fill the available space.
- the assembly is further reduced in diameter to the desired size, an overall reduction in diameter of 10 to 1 being common. Before diameter reduction the assembly may be evacuated, annealed and or back-filled with an inert gas.
- Thermocouples are temperature-measuring sensors. They are fabricated from MIMS cable by cutting to the required length, welding the thermoelements together at one end of the cable to form the 'hot junction' and welding extension leads to the other. Insulating powder is packed in around the hot junction to avoid an air pocket in the completed product, and the MIMS section of the thermocouple is then sealed by welding in some sheathing alloy over the hot junction and, for example, providing a suitable potting compound at the other.
- thermoelements of one of the five internationally-standardised thermocouple types (types E,J,K, N and T: letter designations of the Instrument Society of America) .
- types N and K the type N alloys have well-defined compositions whereas those for the type K alloys are not defined.
- the main requirement for the positive and negative type K thermoelements is that, as a matched pair, the relationship between their net emf and temperature should agree with the relevant internationally-accepted reference equations (such as BS4937, ASTM E230) within defined limits of error.
- the present invention is directed to providing an improved MIMS thermocouple cable, and to thermocouples made from such cable.
- thermocouple cable according to the invention has a positive and a negative thermoelement conforming to the standard emf-temperature specification for type K thermocouples, a sheath through which the thermocouples extend, and compacted ceramic insulating the thermo ⁇ elements from each other and from the sheath; the sheath comprising an oxidation-resistant alloy having a thermal coefficient substantially the same as that of the negative thermoelement and a melting point in excess of 1300°C.
- the alloy of which the sheath is formed may be a nickel based alloy, although other alloys such as cobalt based alloys can be used.
- the nickel based alloy preferably is a nickel-chromium alloy, a particularly preferred alloy being one containing 13 to 15 wt.% chromium, 1 to 2 wt.% silicon with the balance most typically principally comprising nickel.
- the nickel-based alloy preferably contains substantially no manganese; while manganese, if present, should be less than 0.1 wt.%.
- the nickel-based alloys for the sheath may contain elements such as magnesium to enhance their oxidation resistance, and refractory metals such as niobium, tungsten, tantalum or molybdenum to enhance physical properties of the sheath, such as its strength.
- Nicrosil (nominally 14.2 wt.% silicon and the balance essentially nickel) is an example of a suitable alloy for the sheath.
- the positive and negative thermoelements are to be of alloys conforming to the standard emf-temperature specification of type K thermocouples.
- the thermoelements preferably are of respective alloys such that they conform to such specification to within ⁇ 0.75% of temperature, most preferably to within ⁇ 0.375% of temperature.
- the thermoelements should be of alloys meeting above 1300 C; the alloys preferably comprising nickel-based alloys.
- the alloy preferably comprises 9 to 10 wt.% chromium, with the balance substantially comprising nickel, although it may contain up to 1 wt.% silicon and small quantities of other conventional alloy additions.
- the negative thermoelement preferably contains 1 to 3 wt.% silicon in nickel.
- Thermocouples fabricated from cable according to the invention are a considerable improvement over bare-wire type K thermocouples and those produced from conventional base-metal MIMS cables.
- thermoelectric and mechanical have excellent stability, both thermoelectric and mechanical, at high temperatures and the invention is an advance for the following reasons.
- Having the thermolements within a MIMS system avoids instabilities and premature failure at high temperatures (beyond about 900°C) , due to oxidation, that occur in 'bare-wire* thermocouples.
- the use of the sheath alloy specified for the invention avoids the main cause of thermoelectric instability in conventional MIMS systems, that due to the migration of Mn from the sheath.
- use of the sheath of the invention avoids mechanical failures that occur in conventional MIMS systems because of the difference in thermal expansion between that of the sheath and that of the negative thermoelement.
- the sheath specified of the invention is more resistant to oxidation and can be used in air at higher temperatures and for longer periods than the conventional sheathing alloys inconel and stainless steel.
- the only standardised base-metal thermocouples with a practical life beyond 1000°C are the type K and type N thermocouples.
- the type K thermoelements of the invention are more thermoelect- rically stable than the type N and are less likely to fail because of any mixmatch in thermal expansion coefficient.
- type K thermo- couples, including those made from the cable of the invention are of greater practical value because there are two orders of magnitude more instruments, and associated items of equipment, available in the type K calibration than in the type N.
- Figure 1 shows a typical MIMS cable, illustrative of that used to produce thermocouples, the cable 10 having a sheath 12 in which two thermoelements 14 are insulated by compacted ceramic 16;
- Figure 2 is a plot of reversible change in Seebeck coefficient after 200 hours at temperature; and Figure 3 is a plot of in situ temperature drift during 200 hours at temperature.
- thermocouple K K3 Ni 9.1 Cr 0.4Si NI 2.4Si O .OMn 2.2CU l.OC It is the integrated effect of local changes in Seebeck coefficient along the length of a thermocouple that dictates the extent of drift in its signal and thus of the temperature error it produces. For this reason the changes in Seebeck coefficient that occur at temperatures up to 1200°C were measured as a function of time for the various thermoelements. Each thermocouple was heated either isothermally or in a 'gradient-annealing' furnace, the temperature within the latter being roughly linear with distance along much of its length.
- This furnace had a wire-wound tubular muffle, 1.2 m long, containing a 20 mm ID earthed Inconel tube, it had a relatively steep temperature-gradient region at the entrance port and its temperature was uniform at 500°C to ⁇ 5°C along most of its length.
- the emf produced by the temperature step from ambient to 500 C, occurred over a distance of 120 mm.
- thermocouple had just been heated in the gradient-annealing furnace this length of it would correspond to a range of annealing temperatures of typically + 30°C about T at its centre. Hence the emf measured at this immersion in the scanning furnace would reflect the average effect of annealing at To ⁇ +
- thermocouples The movement of the scanning furnace and the electrical measurements were controlled by a Hewlett Packard (HP) 86B computer interfaced to a HP 3456A DMM, having 0.1 uV resolution, and a low-thermal ( 0.1 juV two-pole scanner.
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- ⁇ The cold junction ends of all thermocouples were connected to a set of temperature- monitored terminals at 20 C uniform to ⁇ 0.01 C.
- thermocouple tip temperature was obtained with a Ptl0%Rh versus Pt reference thermocouple whose tip was wire-wrapped to that of the thermocouple under test with Nichrome wire.
- the reference thermocouple has 0.5 mm diameter wires in a 1060 mm long twin-bore insulator of recrystallised alumina and its Seebeck coefficient varied by less than + 0.02% along its length.
- Values of test thermocouple tip temperature (about 500°C) were converted to values of emf, E , for each thermoelement relative to platinum. From measurements taken during the scan, the computer produced a thermoelectric signature for each thermoelement as a plot of E-E against position along the specimen. E is the output of the thermoelement relative to the platinum leg of the reference thermocouple and corrected for the coId-junction temperature.
- the gradient-annealing furnace covers only a limited range of temperature, about 350 C for a peak annealing temperature of 1000°C, the 200 to 1200°C interval considered in this study was examined in four overlapping zones. For each zone a different set of specimens was used and each set consisted of three MIMS specimens, one of each of the three diameters 1.5, 3 and 6 mm. This enabled any diameter-dependence to be observed. To distinguish between reversible and irreversible changes the following sequence was followed for each specimen:
- thermoelement diameter is independent of thermoelement diameter.
- the second type of change is irreversible and occurs because of changes at the surface of each thermoelement. It is therefore diameter dependent. Its cause and degree of change is different from those that would have occurred had the wires been exposed to air, i.e. had they been a bare-wire thermocouple. Since there is no relationship between the two sets of processes the behaviour of a particular pair of thermoelements in a MIMS system is not predictable from data obtained for the same thermoelements as bare wires exposed to air.
- thermocouple pair tested The reversible changes in Seebeck coefficient for each thermocouple pair tested is indicated in Figure 2 and clearly the change in each of the 3 type K thermocouples is similar yet considerably less than that in the type N thermocouple. It was also found that reversible change at any one temperature occurs rapidly at first and then levels off in the long term. For example, there is little change beyond that at 200 hours and half this change occurs in less than 10 hours.
- thermocouple 3 shows the in situ drift in 200 hours at any given temperature for the 4 examples.
- the main contributor to drift is the reversible effect and hence the type K combinations performed better than the type N.
- the contribution from reversible change in the coefficient will change little and it is only at temperatures approaching 1200 C that the long-term irreversible changes would have a significant effect.
- thermoelements in a Nicrosil MIMS sheath at 1100°C the in situ drift for 2000 hours was not significantly different from that at 200 hours. There was a barely-measurable decrease in signal in the long term, as expected, because of irreversible changes occurring in that part of the thermocouple at 100° to 1100°C.
- the in situ drift for all 4 types of specimen (Table 1) over long periods of time, such as 2000 h or so is little different from that indicated in Figure 3 for 200 h. Below 1000°C the drift would be marginally higher than indicated and beyond 1000°C it would be less and eventually become negative.
- the type K varieties perform better than the type N ( Figure 3) and for this reason they were selected as thermoelements for this invention.
- the Invention compared with Conventional Thermocouples
- thermocouples for variable-immersion applications at high temperatures requiring a short-term use of small-diameter probes, the conventional alternatives are: (a) 24 AWG (0.5 mm wires) bare-wire thermocouples in woven insulation or ceramic beads. For comparison purposes the type N thermocouple was chosen for this study because it is the most stable base-metal type for bare-wire use in air. (b) MIMS probes with 1.5 mm diameter sheaths. Samples of the stainless-steel-sheathed type K MIMS system were chosen to represent this group since it is the most commonly used MIMS system. Errors at high temperatures are greatest when probes are moved to a lesser immersion depth and are proportional to the changes in Seebeck coefficient that occur on heating at these temperatures, e.g.
- thermocouples The most common use of thermocouples is in long-term fixed-immersion applications. In such cases, probe (and wire) diameters are larger for longer life and to minimise in situ drift at high temperatures.
- the most commonly used is the bare-wire type K thermocouple with each wire 1.5 to 3.3 mm in diameter. With insulating beads and a separate protection sheath the overall probe diameter becomes 12 to 25 mm.
- thermocouples at 1000°C drifted 6°C in 300 h and 20°C in 5000 h.
- thermocouples (b) 8 AWG (3.3 mm wires) thermocouples at 1100°C drifted 12°C in 800 h. (c) 8 AWG (3.3 mm wires) thermocouples at 1200°C drifted 27°C in 700 h. (d) 15 AWG (1.5 mm wires) thermocouples at 1200°C drifted 66 C in about 500 h and mechanically failed by 1000 h. (e) high-temperature drift rates for bare-wire thermocouples vary considerably because of differences in composition and thus differences in the oxidation mechanisms. In the Nicrosil-sheathed MIMS system, type K thermo- elements specified for the invention will suffer less drift.
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